We have private managed care systems. They're called HMOs. I understand some are very good, but most of the people I know who have opted for the HMO say they're every bit as bad if not worse than the stories we hear about Britain's system.
Just take the HMO, outlaw all other choices, do away with the profit motive HMO's have in using preventive care vice acute care and Voila, you have nationalized healthcare.
Now give the system virtual legal immunity, it’s government after all, and make it the final authority over your healthcare choices and you have our brave new world of government medicine for everyone.
Over 65 and need a hip replacement? Tough, we don’t think you’ll live long enough for it to pay off.
55 years old and have lung cancer? Tough, you shouldn’t have smoked.
Little girl has spinal bifida? Tough, you should have had a pre-natal check and aborted her.
Your mother is in the early stages of Alzimers? Quick, let’s get her to Jack Kevorkian in order to keep the costs down like they do in the Netherlands.
Beneficent Government Bureaucrats, that’s who we want making our life or death decisions. If we don’t agree we can appeal to other bureaucrats and politicians.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
